UNFOLDING P-20 : HOW DO WE COLLABORATE TO --
1. More effectively serve our educational partners? (ROOM 161A)
- Types of partnerships and strategic purposes
- Needs of partners in relation to deliverables
- Communications
- Resources from public and private sectors
- Articulation and reporting of progress toward goals
- Other
2. Make certain that educators in initial stages of preparation gain appropriate content knowledge? (ROOM 161B)
- The role of general education
- The relationship between content and pedagogical knowledge
- Illinois Learning Standards (K-12)
- Illinois Professional Teaching Standards
- "Highly qualified” teachers
- Connections across colleges and across universities
- Other
3. Provide professional development to ensure highly qualified educators in the field? (ROOM 162)
- Delivery models; e.g. multi-media, online, cohorts, school-based.
- Professional development focus areas; e.g. content, technology, assessment, inclusion
- Connection to school improvement plans
- Mentoring and induction
- Other
4. More effectively address issues of assessment and accountability in the development of educators? (ROOM 164)
- Assessment models and reporting of progress toward goals
- Assessing the impact of general education
- Performance indicators/outcome measures
- Mandated testing
- NCATE standards
- Alternative certification
- Other
5. Influence the public agenda on education policies? (ROOM 165)
- Identification and research on high priority issues
- Statewide, public university, consensus positions on issues
- Infrastructure of ongoing support from educators, legislators, business community, and the public, using existing mechanisms as much as possible.
- Concerted actions that are timely and strategic
- Other
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